Written by Julia Keast, Monitoring and Evaluations Intern There is nothing better than being at Shanti Uganda’s birth center on a Thursday. On any given Thursday you will likely find Flora, Shanti’s traditional birth attendant, leading a pre-natal yoga class, […]

Written by volunteer midwife Julia Hagedorn It is one of my last days at the beautiful Shanti Uganda birth center. Suzan, a first time mom to be, is labouring in the sheds of the garden, surrounded by singing birds and […]

Written by a midwifery student who participated in Shanti Uganda’s Doula Training in 2013. I was one of the very fortunate women to travel to Shanti last October with Jane and I cannot express in words how transformative, humbling, […]

Published with the permission from Birth Partner, Nicolette Jacobsz I am so glad I can be of some help to moms in Uganda. I am from South Africa originally, trained there as a physician but followed my husband to Canada […]

By May 11th, midwives at the Shanti Uganda Birth Centre in Luwero will have safely and lovingly supported nearly 500 mothers give birth to healthy babies. In a country that loses 16 mothers everyday due to preventable birth related complications that is […]

Published with permission from Birth Partner, Cathy Rose I have just signed up to be a birth partner. I am doing this to honour my mother, Adelia Rose, who spent her entire working life providing postnatal care at St. Mary’s […]

By Cara Stephenson- Monitoring and Evaluation Intern I love Monitoring & Evaluation. I really do. Perhaps this makes me somewhat of a dork, but I don’t care. At all. When I tell people I am interning as an M&E coordinator […]

By Cara Stephenson- Monitoring and Evaluations Intern Shanti Uganda held our Teen Girls Workshop during the September school holidays. As usual, the girls engaged and enjoyed the sessions we gave on an a vast array of topics, varying from reusable […]

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Nearly 1 in every 2 girls in Uganda is married before the age of 18 and 60% of girls in Uganda are pregnant before they reach 18. Young girls in rural Nsaasi Village, Uganda represent some of the most marginalized […]